By Laura Santhanam Today, women hold less than one out of five STEM-related patents, and it’s been slow growth just to make it that far. Still, that’s a huge rise since 1977 when women were [...]

By Dayna Evans This new information is backed up by another study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research that found black women’s and Native American women’s wages saw the steadiest decline over the past [...]

By Vanessa Hua Half the gender wage gap is due to women working in different kinds of occupations than men, and a new initiative by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research addresses these discrepancies in [...]

By Bryce Covert Being in a union is particularly helpful for marginalized groups that tend to be paid less than white men. A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that [...]

By Steven Musil Using data from 4,600 workers in Australia, the only country that collects information about requested raises, the study ( PDF ) found that men got raises 20 percent of the time they [...]

By Jillian Berman The findings add to the growing body of evidence that women are at a disadvantage salary-wise right out of the gate, even before  many of the oft-cited culprits of the gender wage [...]